Kalen DeBoer Steps In as Alabama's Coach: Playoff Hopes Alive
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00:00Kaelin DeBoer takes over in Alabama, Nick Saban likable all of a sudden doing broadcast,
00:09doing hard knocks, doing everything else.
00:11Their win total is nine and a half.
00:13Some people feel like there's a step back coming for the Crimson Tide this season.
00:16I know you've talked about this quite a bit, Bill.
00:18Do you think that is the case?
00:20I'm coming around the other way.
00:21I still think they could be a playoff caliber team.
00:23I remind people that Kaelin DeBoer took Washington to a national championship game in two years
00:29and had a first-round quarterback in an All-NFL receiving corps while he was there.
00:33You know, they played Georgia and Wisconsin in September.
00:36Those are going to be tough games.
00:37I'm more interested to see how he handles the road games at Tennessee, at LSU.
00:43By the way, in the college football playoff era last 10 years, Alabama was 17-3 against
00:47LSU and Tennessee.
00:49Saban took care of business in those games.
00:51The three he lost was by a combined total of nine points.
00:54And then they have a road trip to Oklahoma.
00:56So those road games are going to determine where this goes with Kaelin DeBoer.
01:00I don't think he has to be Nick Saban.
01:01I don't think he can be Nick Saban.
01:03He just has to be himself in year one.